kelbelinoz

I reckon we take the title for victoria then!! Little annoying ones seem to be disapperaing now......got replaced by the larger slower cousins, god they make a mess when you swat them!!

jonfrank123

What a load of bollocks

The UK winter climate is fantastic. It's not too cold. When the temperature rises to freezing in this part of Canada, the pavement cafe's start opening. Ten degrees is almost t shirt weather. Often it won't go above minus 20 in the middle of the day, and the snot freezes in your nose.

Your car engine never warms up, all the misting up on the window freezes giving you no visibility. The entrance to your house is a mixture of filthy water from the snow outside and salt stains. The car begins to rust from the inside as well as the outside because of all the salt soaking through the carpet, which usually starts to go mouldy by april because it's wet through.

Not only do chunks of Ice come flying of your roof,on a semi regular basis but it's so slippery you go arse over tit about 3 times a week. You have to spend $2000 on a set of tyres for your car so that you don't skid yourself into a ditch.

Then you have the big April thaw to look forward to, when your basement floods and you get to see beutiful brown grass and frozen dog turds from 5 months before.

jojosan

Not wanting to be too obvious - but why don't you bog off to Spain then and stop posting such negative posts on the MBTTUK forum!!! We don't want to hear it; we are from UK you know.

Go and bore someone else

nicola411

I refuse to use the word thongs! Its an american g-string for gods sake.

I also have two boys 5 and 9 and unless they are in the pool or on the beach they are indoors. They cant even go on the trampoline as its like a furnace in their with the netting around it. I also cant let them climb trees around here, too many bloody snakes and spiders!

kelbelinoz

i know it can be dull in uk, but it is what it is......and I love it for it......maybe you viewing new life thru rose tinted glasses? I wore them for a while too......as most expats did....or we'd have never made the change.....it doesnt matter how many blue skies I see or beaches I walk on as I do most everyday......they cannot compensate the friends and family that I left to come here!

kelbelinoz

I agree......been wondering today......is it called a dream because thats what it is? Because in my dream.....it worked and we loved it.....?

I'm sure when were all back home we will miss lots of things, like holiday blues....but I can always hop(almost!) over to Europe for a weekend......

alliekate

We were trying to work this out today........

Having spent so much time travelling in Oz, it has been a real shock to find out how much we dislike living here (and yes, we probably picked the wrong place for us personally). And yet others "live the dream".

We had the dream too back in the UK , for five long years - but think that when you are in "holiday mode" it is completely different to "resident mode". There is no escape, not from the heat, the bad driving, the strange people, the crime (and yes it is just as bad here than in the UK - will not go into any detail, but if you read the Ozzie papers you will know what I am talking about).

It is really sad to admit that you were wrong - and to get back to the topic in hand, how much you miss the British seasons. Guess it's what we grew up with and what we know ?

A xx

alicecat

Re the crime. There is a big fuss here at the moment about the Home Secretary saying that there are places you just shouldn't walk out in after dark. Well I certainly wouldn't walk out in parts of Brisbane after dark. How many brawls and beatings were there last year in Brisbane?

alliekate

OMG, I could start a whole other thread on this........but I won't you'll be pleased to hear !!!

I had no idea that the basic understructure - police/child welfare/animal welfare are so stretched here - coming from the UK, it has been a terrible shock (hubbie was a cop and I was an RSPCA Inspector). All I can say is that I know the UK has huge problems, but up here, it is something else. And that's 60 million versus 20 million.

A lot of people can turn a blind eye to it, but when you are sensitive to it, it really gets to you. (Like the story of the 6 year olds who broke into a kindy to steal food from the fridge at 3 am - and the parents hadn't noticed they were missing.......... and the cops just returned them to their parents). I cried over that. These stories are in the paper every single day.

As I say, a whole other (and very contraversial) thread.

Still looking at my daffodil and smiling

A xx

rugbymatt

I thought the same thing mate, but as yet he hasn't mentioned Real ale or Peters and Lee.....................



but I am watching

bil

Jojosan, trust me sweety, were I able, I would go today. I am only stuck here because I am being screwed over by the government who has instituted their own Valencian landgrab.

kelbelinoz says i know it can be dull in uk.

Thank you, at least one person who can actually look at the UK without the tinted specs.

There are some excellent things about the UK, like the multiculturism and the ability to go to restaurants of a dozen nationalities within 12 miles of my front door.

However the way people can overlook how dull, grey and tedious this place can be never ceases to amaze me. What is it? Self delusion? I talk to a lot of people and I never cease to be amazed by how many people say 'You'll be bored' 'You'll be back' with such obvious relish. It's as tho they are so poisonously envious of you escaping that the bile chokes them.

Every now and then you do get someone who says the equivalent of 'Run, Forrest, run!' and wishes you well in your escape, but they are rara aves indeed.

Jojosan, I hope you are happy here. If you are tho, why the comments? Choked with bile are we??

rugbymatt

I hope you don't mind me asking bil, but if you are still in the UK, planning to move to Spain, why are you in this part of the forum trying to convince people that the UK is shite?

bil

Sorry, didn't realise it was a restricted area.

I am doing my best to prevent ending up like so many expats, and coming home. So, I pay attention to why people come back. Maybe if more people did that, there would be fewer returning home with their tails between their legs.

Since so many make the excellent point that far too many don their rose tinted specs to view the emigration, I thought to provide balance by pointing out that those looking homeward longingly should bear in mind that rose tinteds are a bad thing there too.

OK?

rugbymatt

But you dont know the true feelings or real reasons why people are coming home, so I'm just a touch confused as to why you are trying to tell them they are making a mistake.


As to the OP's first post, have you ever lived in OZ?

Do you have any idea how unbearably hot it can get out there?

Trust me, a bit of corrugated plastic will just make that 40 degree heat worse!

I'm not trying to be a forum nazi, its just that this forum is supposed to to a lifeline for people coming home, not a place where people are told the weather is shite..............if you have lived in lizard city for a few years, a little bit of inclement weather is a welcome change.

TraceyW

Oooh look at me, posting springtime piccies of beautiful Blighty, taken through rose tinted lenses!!!

Enjoy xxx